Man Charged With Hatching Fake Armed Robbery

(Shelton, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Shelton Police are charging a Seymour man with making a false armed robbery complaint, all to keep his daughter away from a man she’d been dating.
Officers say in July, 20-year-old Thomas Owen filed the complaint and picked the man out of a lineup.
Shelton police say they later learned through their investigation that 47-year-old Philip Prokop and his mother had paid off Owen to make the false claim.
Detectives say Prokop hatched the plan to have th